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1999 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 4 × 100 metres relay

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 27, 2026
Entity authorityQ4595279 ↗
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The Women's 4 × 100 metres relay event at the 1999 World Championships in Athletics was held at the Estadio Olímpico de Sevilla on August 28 and August 29.

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Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1999—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with World, Championships and Athletics providing the first useful test.
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This entry incorporates text from “1999 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 4 × 100 metres relay” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.